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YOu've been spot on about oil, still cozing drivers pain yet not breaking new ground, YET... Hurricane season just started, let the predictions begin...

Didn't take too much profit huh? Don't think a rally can sustain itself?

The question about today's number is, did anybody know it was coming? Leaks? come on, how could they have overestimated by that much...

bonds didn't respond well at all...

Geez, they caught me off guard... They took a poor ol sap of a puppet and replaced him with an outspoken, hardnosed, smart as hell banker... What was he thinking??? It's kinda like the Thain appointment, only even less lucrative... I personally think the Bush admin scored a coup on this one...

Interesting how that part of the biz is changing, seems like less free money now with the lack of volatility and the advent of technology taking over trading... whatever happened to the specialist taking an eighth off of ya...

I always hate the dreaded roll... keeping track of first call dates et al... Giving up a few ticks on a market that isn't moving much to begin with is costly, I can just imagine the bill on some of these hedge funds...

Nice that you've been able to partipate in the move, US ten years don't seem to wanna join in on the fun...

I think they're still ok as long as the reward is 100 basis points premium, it'll be a while before that happens thou...

It's always the big boys who get away with it too huh? If you're a hedge fund with Nobel Prize winners on staff, you get bailed out by the gov or the system collapses, if you're a country that over values its currency and defaults on its foreign debt, you get bailed out by the G7 and get...

lol... ya, economics majors never get the girls, finally an attractive female talks to you and you spill it...

Whatcha think of the bearish doji candle created by today's action, strong uptrend in the morning and giving it all back in the aft...

here here!

It always intrigues me what Gross is thinking on any given day... well, at least he finally admitted he was wrong about current yields, that the fed would and may still continue to push into mid 5%. With regards to the belly missing most of the action, it's a little hard for the 10's to be...

on good volume too, especially on a no news day i'm suprised, let's see if we go inverted next week!! that should get them talking....

love the vocab, you must've an English major... "leg the spread!!"

I agree, i'm not totally buying the "fundamentalists" reasons for the equity market collapse as of late, it really is about longs getting out and shorts putting on the squeeze...

heehee, same here, lol...

you think it's possible we get supply-side pressure leading to stagflation? My guess is could be a second half downturn due to housing/energy costs, but continued pressure on prices due to non-core items, voila, negative growth and positive pricing pressures...

Not good CPI numbers for the longs today, bearish engulfing erases yesterdays gains, looks like it'd be premature for the Fed to pause...